The "Morning Post." traditionally pro-Jepanese in its stand, says. Teading article on the Japanese reply, to the "This econelle with Japan's assurances of concern for the safely of non-comclusion: from It by, Japanese industry oF the devastation of China.
"By all signs, thera is no weaken ing of Chinese' hostility. towards the invader, Slaughter and suffering have not, shattered the new national feeling. They appear only to con solidate unity."
"The Japanese Government," the Journal adds, "may well begin to consider what can" be gained" by. plunging further into an enterprise Which "at cack advance, infleta a more exhausting strain without ringing the end nearer."
"rhe Times Comment "Japan's friends in this country jean not but watch with dismay the vast military commitments she piling up ina country which is easy fo defeat in pitched battle and not commonly diieut to subdue, Tapan appears to" be dissipating hor "resources in' an undertaking of Which "the benedts, ether economic, military or political, are dubious in the extreme, Well may it be feared that the most probable beneficiary will not Japan, but Soviet Russia, to whom," in China, Japan is exposing her Achilles" hee,"—Reuter, Under the heading of *China_ at Bay," "The "Times," in a leader' today, says' that Jepan's reply on the wounding of the British Ambassador
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